87 Quotes About History-repeating-itself
- Author Antonia Fraser
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The execration in best-selling pamphlets and obscene engravings did not cease, many people expecting the Queen to take Jeanne de Lamotte Valois’s former place in the Salpétréne prison. Any evil, including a daring jewel robbery brilliantly organized from a closed prison could be attributed to her.
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- Author Antonia Fraser
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For the King’s distaste at the idea of a mistress, Marie Antoinette can hardly be blamed; yet somehow she was turned into the scapegoat of this upsetting of the natural order of things-as the French court saw it.
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- Author C. S. Lewis
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That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
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- Author Umberto Eco
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Everything is repeated, in a circle. History is a master because it teaches us that it doesn't exist. It's the permutations that matter.
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- Author Jonathan R. Miller
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You are not responsible for the past, but insofar as you do nothing, you are complicit in the present created by it.
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- Author Matthew Catania
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The problem with revolutions is that they always end right where they begin.
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- Author S.M. Sigerson
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A nation which fails to adequately remember salient points ofits own history, is like a person with Alzheimer's. And that can be asocial disease of a most destructive nature.
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- Author Hannah Arendt
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Totalitarian solutions may well survive the fall of totalitarian regimes in the form of strong temptations which will come up whenever it seems impossible to alleviate political, social, or economic misery in a manner worthy of man.
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- Author Brad Meltzer
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I spend every day showing people the power of history. But history only has the power you give it.
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